Black bar haters MUST SEE THIS!

[TheRealBob]

Originally Posted by BStecke

Anamorphic widescreen does not automatically mean there will be no more black bars. Watch a non-anamorphic 2.35 DVD and then switch to an anamorphic 2.35 disc. You still have bars, but the non-anamorphic is MUCH more prevalent, not to mention it's 2.35 made for 4x3. Anamorphic just makes it so it's properly formatted for a 16x9 TV, rather than stretching a 2.35 4x3 image to fill a 16x9 set.

A 2:35:1 image that's scaled to fit your TV without cropping is going to fill exactly the same image area regardless of whether the source is anamorphic or not, so the bars will not be much more prevalent.

If anything, I've seen them be less prevalent for nonanamorphic images, since that usually involves using a zoom mode, which usually zooms too aggressively and shears off a little more of the sides.

Anamorphic images do give you more detail.